[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

slack \slack\, n. cf. slag.
   small coal; also, coal dust; culm. --raymond.
   1913 webster
see also:
slag 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

slack \slack\, n. icel. slakki a slope on a mountain edge.
   a valley, or small, shallow dell. prov. eng. --grose.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

slack \slack\, a. compar. slacker; superl. slackest. oe.
   slak, as. sleac; akin to os. slak, ohg. slah, prov. g.
   schlack, icel. slakr, sw. slak; cf. skr. s.rj to let loose,
   to throw. cf. slake.
   lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended; as, a
   slack rope.
   1913 webster

   2. weak; not holding fast; as, a slack hand. --milton.
      1913 webster

   3. remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not
      earnest or eager; as, slack in duty or service.
      1913 webster

            the lord is not slack concerning his promise, as
            some men count slackness.             --2 pet. iii.
                                                  9.
      1913 webster

   4. not violent, rapid, or pressing; slow; moderate; easy; as,
      business is slack. "with slack pace." --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            c?sar . . . about sunset, hoisting sail with a slack
            southwest, at midnight was becalmed.  --milton.
      1913 webster

   slack in stays naut., slow in going about, as a ship.

   slack water, the time when the tide runs slowly, or the
      water is at rest; or the interval between the flux and
      reflux of the tide.

   slack-water navigation, navigation in a stream the depth of
      which has been increased, and the current diminished, by a
      dam or dams.
      1913 webster

   syn: loose; relaxed; weak; remiss; backward; abated;
        diminished; inactive; slow; tardy; dull.
        1913 webster
see also:
slacker slackest slake slack in stays slack water slack-water navigation 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

slack \slack\, slacken \slack"en\, v. i. imp.  p. p.
   slacked, slackened; p. pr.  vb. n. slacking,
   slackening. see slack, a.
   1. to become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to
      decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry
      weather.
      1913 webster

   2. to be remiss or backward; to be negligent.
      1913 webster

   3. to lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination
      with water; to slake; as, lime slacks.
      1913 webster

   4. to abate; to become less violent.
      1913 webster

            whence these raging fires
            will slacken, if his breath stir not their flames.
                                                  --milton.
      1913 webster

   5. to lose rapidity; to become more slow; as, a current of
      water slackens.
      1913 webster

   6. to languish; to fail; to flag.
      1913 webster

   7. to end; to cease; to desist; to slake. obs.
      1913 webster

            that through your death your lineage should slack.
                                                  --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            they will not of that firste purpose slack.
                                                  --chaucer.
      1913 webster slack
see also:
slacked slackened slacking slackening slack 

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

slack \slack\, slacken \slack"en\, v. t.
   1. to render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack
      a rope; to slacken a bandage. --wycklif acts xxvii. 40
      1913 webster

   2. to neglect; to be remiss in. obs. --shak.
      1913 webster

            slack not the pressage.               --dryden.
      1913 webster

   3. to deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water;
      to slake; as, to slack lime.
      1913 webster

   4. to cause to become less eager; to repress; to make slow or
      less rapid; to retard; as, to slacken pursuit; to slacken
      industry. "rancor for to slack." --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            i should be grieved, young prince, to think my
            presence
            unbent your thoughts, and slackened 'em to arms.
                                                  --addison.
      1913 webster

            in this business of growing rich, poor men should
            slack their pace.                     --south.
      1913 webster

            with such delay
            well plased, they slack their course. --milton.
      1913 webster

   5. to cause to become less intense; to mitigate; to abate; to
      ease.
      1913 webster

            to respite, or deceive, or slack thy pain
            of this ill mansion.                  --milton.
      1913 webster

   air-slacked lime, lime slacked by exposure to the air, in
      consequence of the absorption of carton dioxide and water,
      by which it is converted into carbonate of lime and
      hydrate of lime.
      1913 webster
see also:
air-slacked lime 

[6] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

slack \slack\, adv.
   slackly; as, slack dried hops.
   1913 webster

[7] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

slack \slack\, n.
   the part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon
   it; as, the slack of a rope or of a sail.
   1913 webster slack

[8] : WordNet (r) 2.0

slack
     adj 1: not tense or taut; "the old man's skin hung loose and gray";
            "slack and wrinkled skin"; "slack sails"; "a slack
            rope" syn: loose
     2: lacking in strength or firmness or resilience; "flaccid
        muscles"; "took his lax hand in hers"; "gave a limp
        handshake"; "a limp gesture as if waving away all desire
        to know" g.k.chesterton; "a slack grip" syn: flaccid, lax,
         limp
     3: flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the
        tide; "slack water"
     4: lacking in rigor or strictness; "such lax and slipshod ways
        are no longer acceptable"; "lax in attending classes";
        "slack in maintaining discipline" syn: lax
     n 1: dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and
          coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed
          over a sieve
     2: a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality; "the
        team went into a slump"; "a gradual slack in output"; "a
        drop-off in attendance"; "a falloff in quality" syn: slump,
         drop-off, falloff, falling off
     3: a stretch of water without current or movement; "suddenly
        they were in slack water"
     4: the condition of being loose not taut; "he hadn't counted
        on the slackness of the rope" syn: slackness
     5: a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely; "he took up
        the slack"
     v 1: avoid responsibilities and work, be idle
     2: be inattentive to, or neglect; "he slacks his attention"
     3: release tension on; "slack the rope"
     4: make less active or fast; "he slackened his pace as he got
        tired"; "don't relax your efforts now" syn: slacken, slack
        up, relax
     5: become slow or slower; "production slowed" syn: slow, slow
        down, slow up, slacken
     6: make less active or intense syn: slake, abate
     7: become less in amount or intensity; "the storm abated"; "the
        rain let up after a few hours" syn: abate, let up, slack
        off, die away
     8: cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water; "slack
        lime" syn: slake
see also:
loose flaccid lax limp slump drop-off 
falloff falling off slackness slacken slack up 
relax slow slow down slow up slake 
abate let up slack off die away 

[9] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

440 moby thesaurus words for "slack":
   laodicean, micawberish, olympian, paphian, abandon, abate,
   abatement, abeyant, aloof, ambling, anemic, apathetic, asthenic,
   backward, bagging, baggy, bate, beat-up, bedraggled, behindhand,
   benumbed, blah, blase, bloodless, blow out, blowzy, bone-lazy,
   bones, cadging, careless, cataleptic, catatonic, cautious, chaff,
   chambering, chicken, chintzy, choke, circumspect, claudicant,
   coal dust, comatose, comb, coom, cowardly, crawling, creeping,
   creeping like snail, culm, culpably negligent, cut, dallying, damp,
   dangling, dead, deadwood, debilitated, decline, decrease, delay,
   delaying, deliberate, delinquent, derelict, desensitized, detached,
   diffuse, dilapidated, dilatory, dillydallying, diminish,
   diminution, dishwater, disinterested, disjoin, disperse,
   disregardful, do-nothing, dodge, dog it, doless, dopey, dormant,
   douse, down, downturn, drabbletailed, draff, draggled,
   draggletailed, dregs, dronish, drony, drooping, droopy, duck,
   duck duty, dull, dust, dwindling, ease, ease off, ease up, easy,
   easygoing, effete, ergophobic, etiolated, extinguish, faineant,
   faint, faintish, faltering, feeble, filings, flabby, flaccid,
   flagging, flapping, flat, floppy, foot-dragging, foul, free,
   frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, garbage, gash, gentle, get out of, give,
   goldbrick, gone, good-for-nothing, goof off, gradual, groggy,
   grubby, gutless, halting, hanging, heartless, heavy, hebetudinous,
   hobbling, hogwash, hopeless, husks, idle, imbecile, impotent,
   imprecise, in a stupor, in abeyance, in rags, in suspense,
   inactive, inactivity, inadvertent, inattentive, indifferent,
   indolent, inert, infirm, informal, insouciant, jump, lackadaisical,
   laggard, lagging, laissez-faire, languid, languorous, latent, lax,
   lazy, leaden, leave, leave loose ends, leave undone, leavings,
   lees, leisurely, lenient, lessening, let alone, let be, let dangle,
   let down, let go, let loose, let up, let up on, lethargic,
   lifeless, light, limber, limp, limping, lingering, listless, logy,
   loitering, loose, loose-moraled, loosen, looseness, lull,
   lumbering, lumpen, lustless, malinger, marrowless, messy, miss,
   mitigate, moderate, mussy, neglect, neglectful, neglecting,
   negligent, nerveless, nonaggressive, nonchalant, noninterfering,
   nonrestrictive, not pull fair, numb, numbed, of easy virtue,
   of loose morals, off, off-guard, offal, offscourings, omit, orts,
   otiose, out, overindulgent, overly permissive, overpermissive,
   parasitic, parings, pass over, pass up, passive, pause, permissive,
   phlegmatic, pithless, play, pluckless, poking, poky, pooped,
   potsherds, powerless, pretermit, procrastinate, procrastinating,
   procrastinative, procrastinatory, promiscuous, put out, quench,
   ragged, raggedy, rags, raspings, reduction, refuse, regardless,
   relax, relaxed, release, reluctant, remiss, remit, resigned,
   rickety, room, rubbery, ruinous, sagging, sapless, sauntering,
   scamping, scatter, scourings, scraggly, scrap iron, scraps,
   scrounging, scum, sedentary, seedy, shabby, shaky, shards,
   shavings, shiftless, shirk, shoddy, shuffling, sinewless, skimping,
   skip, skulk, slack off, slack up, slacken, slackening, slackness,
   slag, slake, slatternly, sleeping, slide out of, slighting,
   slip out of, slipshod, slop, sloppy, slops, slothful, slovenly,
   slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow down,
   slow up, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged,
   slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing,
   slow-stepped, slow-up, sluggish, slumbering, slurring, sluttish,
   smoldering, smother, snail-paced, snaillike, sneak out of, snuff,
   snuff out, soft, soldier, soporific, sordid, spineless, spiritless,
   sponging, spunkless, squalid, staggering, stagnant, stamp out,
   standing, static, stifle, stoic, streaming, strengthless,
   strolling, stubble, stupefied, supine, suspended, sweepings, swill,
   tacky, tame, tares, tattered, tentative, tire, toddling, torpid,
   tortoiselike, tottering, trifle, trudging, turtlelike, unaroused,
   unbend, unbrace, uncaring, uncircumspect, unconcerned,
   unenterprising, unglue, unguarded, unhardened, unhurried,
   uninterested, unkempt, unlax, unleash, unneat, unnerved,
   unrestrained, unrigorous, unsightly, unsteady, unstick, unstrain,
   unstring, unstrung, untidy, untighten, unwary, unwatchful, unwind,
   waddling, wanton, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper,
   wayward, weak, weaken, weakly, weeds, welsh, whorish, withdrawn,
   work-shy

[10] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

slack n. 1. space allocated to a disk file but not actually used to
   store useful information. the techspeak equivalent is `internal
   fragmentation'. antonym: hole. 2. in the theology of the church of
   the subgenius, a mystical substance or quality that is the prerequisite
   of all human happiness.

   since unix files are stored compactly, except for the unavoidable
   wastage in the last block or fragment, it might be said that "unix has
   no slack". see ha ha only serious.


see also:
hole church of the subgenius ha ha only serious 

[11] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

slack
     
        1.  internal fragmentation.  space allocated
        to a disk file but not actually used to store useful
        information.
     
        2.  in the theology of the church of the subgenius,
        a mystical substance or quality that is the prerequisite of
        all human happiness.
     
        since unix files are stored compactly, except for the
        unavoidable wastage in the last block or fragment, it might be
        said that "unix has no slack".
     
        see ha ha only serious.
     
        jargon file
     
        1995-03-01
     
     
see also:
church of the subgenius unix ha ha only serious jargon file 

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